Associated PressIt's not just gas that's cheaper in Denver. A pack of smokes will cost much less here - about $5 - as opposed to the $8 at home.

We noticed a couple of cost-of-living/state-tax type things while bouncing around town the last two days. Gasoline is about $3.67 or so a gallon, cheaper than what you'll find on Staten Island, but not as low as gas in New Jersey.

But cigarettes, another item that gets its price hiked whenever lawmakers need to increase tax revenues, are just under $5 a pack here, a significant different from the $8 or more that Islanders can find themselves paying.